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Refocusing a bit, here are my thoughts on the new season/Daytona:
I LOVED the retro liveries. Especially the Brumos colors on the #911 and #912. I only wish the integrated 59 was maybe smaller so the stripes looked a little stronger in color, but I understand the reference of course and love the idea as a whole. I wish Corvette had run the GM Goodwrench livery from 1999 as I think was mentioned in this thread. That thing was a beaut!!!
I'm gutted by the absences of Wright Motorsports, Spirit of Daytona, and the Red Dragon/Gainsco. I knew Gainsco had withdrawn, and I had forgotten about Spirit of Daytona being short on funding, but Wright Motorsports really caught me off guard. On the plus side, it's cool to see Starworks back - and even with Ryan Dalziel - although I expected to see them in a prototype. Still, the R8 looked good in retro Audi colors and even better with the pinup on the side.
I do not like the DPi/P2 split at all. It was not perfect, of course, but I felt IMSA had achieved a good level of equality last year with the BOP. The DPi's were better in some places, and the P2's were better in others. By splitting the classes, what you really do is force teams to decide if they want to compete for overall wins or be relegated to a secondary prototype class (hello PC).
Now you've got 4 cars among 2 or 3 teams and that's supposed to constitute a class? Terrible decision in my opinion. We finally get rid of the waste of space PC class only to replace it with P2.
If P2 grows [in the series] then I guess it can be viable on its own, but as is, it even wastes space on the screen during coverage. Each class had 5 positions listed on screen in the "main" layout. I rather liked it, but of course, P2 had 4 cars and a blank. That space could've been used for the 3 "real" classes to list more of them. I watched most of the race on DVR so I couldn't exactly bring up the running order live on a secondary source as it wouldn't have been synched to where I was in the race.
More importantly, I think 1 prototype and 2 GT classes works best for the series. Prototypes as one entity cause less confusion for casual fans trying to distinguish class differences, and 3 classes is more reasonable for sharing TV coverage time. I suppose I would be happy if P2 were limited to the 4 endurance races, but I still liked it better with DPi and P2 combined.
I LOVED the retro liveries. Especially the Brumos colors on the #911 and #912. I only wish the integrated 59 was maybe smaller so the stripes looked a little stronger in color, but I understand the reference of course and love the idea as a whole. I wish Corvette had run the GM Goodwrench livery from 1999 as I think was mentioned in this thread. That thing was a beaut!!!
I'm gutted by the absences of Wright Motorsports, Spirit of Daytona, and the Red Dragon/Gainsco. I knew Gainsco had withdrawn, and I had forgotten about Spirit of Daytona being short on funding, but Wright Motorsports really caught me off guard. On the plus side, it's cool to see Starworks back - and even with Ryan Dalziel - although I expected to see them in a prototype. Still, the R8 looked good in retro Audi colors and even better with the pinup on the side.
I do not like the DPi/P2 split at all. It was not perfect, of course, but I felt IMSA had achieved a good level of equality last year with the BOP. The DPi's were better in some places, and the P2's were better in others. By splitting the classes, what you really do is force teams to decide if they want to compete for overall wins or be relegated to a secondary prototype class (hello PC).
Now you've got 4 cars among 2 or 3 teams and that's supposed to constitute a class? Terrible decision in my opinion. We finally get rid of the waste of space PC class only to replace it with P2.
If P2 grows [in the series] then I guess it can be viable on its own, but as is, it even wastes space on the screen during coverage. Each class had 5 positions listed on screen in the "main" layout. I rather liked it, but of course, P2 had 4 cars and a blank. That space could've been used for the 3 "real" classes to list more of them. I watched most of the race on DVR so I couldn't exactly bring up the running order live on a secondary source as it wouldn't have been synched to where I was in the race.
More importantly, I think 1 prototype and 2 GT classes works best for the series. Prototypes as one entity cause less confusion for casual fans trying to distinguish class differences, and 3 classes is more reasonable for sharing TV coverage time. I suppose I would be happy if P2 were limited to the 4 endurance races, but I still liked it better with DPi and P2 combined.
